New Year Eve!

I got up around 7 am and vacumed & cleaned up. I hadn't cleaned in over a week!

The dogs got up around 8.30 am or so. I took the dogs on a small walk to do their jobs. Visited for a long time with the neighbors. They are both headed to Texas today. Finally got finished visiting it was after 12.30 pm, so changed clothes and took off toward the beach.

Here is a picture of the Ship Island Excursion boat that takes you out to Ship Island. It is closed during the off season time. Too bad,

it would of been nice to have taken a boat ride!

Drove east today and toured the area. Stopped at the beaches along that way and checked them out.

Ran into a couple from St. Louis MO! How about that.

As you can see, many of the pier's were taken out by the storm. There hasn't been alot of building back since hurricane Katrina.

There is still lots of work to be done and debry that has to be cleaned up. It's amazing all that the storm took out. All along the beach front there are evidence of block foundation, but that is all that is left of what used to be here.

There are a few pier's here and there that have been built back. A few casino's, hotel's and lots of waffle houses have built back. There are a few homes but not many. Rumor has it that there will not be very many homes built back in the area as they can't get insurance now. It is still going to take awhile for this area to get completely back on it's feet. Although rumor has it that there will be jobs in the near future. Hmmmm interesting thought.

Here is a picture of a gun that apparently survived the storm. There were 2 of them. They were pretty neat to look at.

Here i am on the beach!

Then went to a pier, it was a long walk to the end of this and it took us a bit to get to the end.

There were several people on the pier and we and ran into a family that moved here from Louieville, KY. The parents came here to visit, fell in love with the area and bought a home and retired here. Soon the rest of the family followed them.

Here is a couple of pictures of the Gulf that i took while out on the pier. Isn't this a breath taking view?

It's been another great day and the last day of visiting Mississippi until I come back some other day.

Got back before dark and I took the dogs for a walk and then took a showers. It was a bit nippy as when the sun goes down it gets cool here. I don't think i will be seeing the new year come in tonight. I'm going to get up early and get things ready to roll. Heading to Alabama!

Until later ............